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Re: [PATCH] fix an infinite loop with a corrupted pc partition table


From: Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix an infinite loop with a corrupted pc partition table
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:58:59 +0200

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Vladimir 'phcoder'
Serbinenko<address@hidden> wrote:
>> Links backwards between extended partition entries are more likely to be
>> due to data corruption than due to buggy partitoning tools.  OK, if you
>> want, let's support up to 10 backward links.  That's more than enough.
> I remembered a compact algorithm for detecting loops of such kind I
> will implement it and submit a patch and we'll see how really compact
> it is
Here it is. Strange that I haven't remembered this algorithm before.
Can someone test this patch?
>
> --
> Regards
> Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
>
> Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git
>



-- 
Regards
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko

Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git

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